Trackpad 6

Hot on the heels of their Windows 8 range, Logitech throw a pair of new Mac accessories out into the wilds of the pre-Christmas shopping period. Both Mac-focussed takes on ideas already seen in their Windows 8 range, Logitech are...

Think clamshell flip-phones had died the death? Think again: RIM have got a brand new one waiting in the wings in the shape of the BlackBerry Style 9670. Product manager Randy Carson seemed to have spoken to my Mum during...

A few more pictures have surfaced overnight of a next-generation MacBook Pro, complete with shiny glassy screen and a black bezel. Also notable is that the trackpad completely lacks any kind of buttons at all. As someone who always turns off the tap-to-click feature of trackpads, that doesn't bode well for me. While PCs steadfastly add more and more buttons to mice, Apple is removing its one button...

Apple has today unveiled six new notebook machines — three MacBooks and three MacBook Pros — all featuring the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, and now including the same multi-touch trackpad as found on the MacBook Air.
With speeds of up to 2.5GHz, the new Core 2 Duo chips pack a decent punch. Even the entry level MacBook sports a 2.1GHz processor.
Only the MacBook Pros feature the new multi-touch trackpad, with the MacBooks continuing with the standard scrolling trackpad. The new trackpad gives instant access to features such as pinch, rotate and swipe — great for handling photos.

It's not hard to imagine Apple continuing to update its "multitouch" gesturing ability across a range of its hardware, and given that all of its recent hardware runs using a version of OS X, a patent for a control panel...